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Monday, February 9, 2009

. . . The real problem with the stimulus bill is not that it is too big (although it is too big) nor its various objectionable ingredients (although many are objectionable), but rather that it is based on a false economic theory."The American people…did not vote for the false theories of the past," Obama assured his listeners Thursday. Yet the "economic recovery plan" pushed by Pelosi and other Democrats is nothing but Keynesian theory in postmodern drag, elegantly costumed by the Orator-in-Chief with a lot of glittering generalities about "modernizing our health care system…21st century classrooms…and end[ing] the tyranny of oil in our time."This plan is not a Change We Can Believe In and, as I wrote two months ago, before Obama was inaugurated, it won't work. . . .

2 comments:

It won't work, but I had a cool idea today.As the Steaming 111th will surely be the Congress That Will Live In Infamy, what better way to immortalize them than with a monument?I'm thinking that the bill should direct the NEA to commission a giant bronze steamer, of suitable dimensions to imprint the entire text of the bill in a legible font.The base of this scatalogical sculpture could have the names of every clown voting 'yes' on it.Income can be generated by, over time, having artists use brasso to sketch portraits of the signatories in the corrosion on the surface, which can then be photographed and sold, assuming anything like currency remains in circulation.Baked miniatures of the monument can be sold, so that you can eat this thing in more ways than one.Can we think of accurate, creative ways to support the Congress and the POTUS in these tough times? Yes, We Can.

Thank you for not shunning RP and us Paultards, Stacy, as so many other right wing sites have done. I also really appreciate your efforts to get the anti-Paul faction(s) to agree to disagree on certain hot-buttonissues (at least for the time being).

Hit the tip jar, you ungrateful bastards!

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